*”…I wrote about people finding joy in craftsmanship and dessert even within lives of great hardship and injustice…because finding joy shows something powerful about human spirit…”
A Fine Dessert
by Emily Jenkins; Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
children’s book
Sun…day Musing:*
*”…Just think…in rooms, in houses, on streets, in towns, in countries all over the world, everybody has his or her own special place on the map…”
Me On the Map
by Joan Sweeney, Illustrated by Annette Cable
Sun…day Musing:*
*”…Out here, there’s more light, and all we need is our own small space to feel at home…”
Song for a Whale
by Lynne Kelly
Sun…day Musing:*
*”…Maybe I’ll win that roller coaster ride…maybe I won’t. Either way, I’ll be happy. I’ll be a winner. Because the story I wrote is my own. Not somebody else’s. And that makes it the best…”*
The Best Story
by Eileen Spinelli, Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf
Sun…day Musing:*
* ” ‘If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.’ – Orson Welles”
The Land of Stories: worlds collide
by Chris Coffer, Illustrated by Brandon Dorman
Sun…day Musing: *
*”…Remember, then, with every try, sometimes you fail, sometimes you fly…”
*Sometimes You Fly by Katherine Applegate, Illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt
Evening Everlasting:*
*”…’AS HUMAN BEINGS, WE ARE PART OF THE WHOLE STREAM OF LIFE…’ Rachel Carson”
SPRING AFTER SPRING, How RACHEL CARSON INSPIRED the Environmental Movement by Stephanie Roth Sisson
Friday Fun*
*”When the sand had cooled in the late afternoon Prince would come with us down to the sea and cavort clumsily in the waves…”
Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
Sun…day Musing: *
*”…It was a music more tangible than form or sight. It had essence and structure…It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars…”
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L’ Engle
Friday Fun:*
*”…’What was the original title of A WRINKLE IN TIME?’ “Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which”…” fm (Questions for the Author) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’ Engle
Let the Balloons Sail Me Away 